RAM and Storage Upgrade HP 15-cw1507sa

[Service2u]

I recently purchased a HP 15-cw1507sa. Upon setting it up, I realised that 2gb of the 8gb of memory was being used by the integrated graphics leaving me with on 6gb for everything else. I then tried to find compatible RAM upgrades to use but couldn't find any. Am I just not looking hard enough or is there no upgrade options?

I also realised quickly that 256gb of SSD storage is not enough. So, I checked the manual and found that there is an empty HDD slot and wanted to find out if there were any official upgrades for that. Again, nothing. So, can I put a HDD in there or is it not available with my model? If so, where do I buy a compatible drive?

[banhien · Accepted solution]

@Service2u 

Its specs

             https://support.hp.com/au-en/document/c06444626

1. RAM: It has  8 GB DDR4-2400 SDRAM (2 x 4 GB) now - both slots are occupied and it supports 32GB (2 x 16GB) max. You can upgrade to

             (a) 16GB: using the following compatible RAM (will run at 2400MHz)

                                https://www.crucial.com/memory/ddr4/ct2k8g4sfra266/ct18815139

                      or      https://www.crucial.com/memory/ddr4/ct2k8g4sfs824a/ct15595432

             (b) 32GB:  using the following compatible RAM (will run at 2400MHz)

                                https://www.crucial.com/memory/ddr4/ct2k16g4sfra266/ct18853629

                       or     https://www.crucial.com/memory/ddr4/ct2k16g4sfd832a/ct17692684

2. STORAGE: It has 256 GB PCIe® NVMe™ M.2 SSD, you have 2 options

              (a) Upgrade to 1TB or 2TB using same band of the existing SSD or use the following compatible drives

                             https://www.crucial.com/ssd/p5/ct1000p5ssd8/ct18160655

                             https://www.samsung.com/au/memory-storage/970-evo-nvme-m2-ssd/MZ-V7E2T0BW/

              (b) Add 2.5" HDD/SSD to your machine but you need following parts

                             The hard drive brackets are available using spare part number L19469-001,

                             The hard drive cable is available using spare part number L23889-001.

       Parts may not available

                         https://partsurfer.hp.com/Search.aspx?searchText=L23889-001

Regards